Derr v. Maryland

Issue: Whether the Sixth Amendment permits the state’s
expert witness to present to a jury the results of
forensic tests that she neither performed nor witnessed
as substantive evidence to support her conclusion that
petitioner was the source of DNA evidence, when the
state does not call the analysts who performed the
tests as witnesses or show that they are unavailable
and previously subject to cross-examination.

Aug. 2015

In a conversation with Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard, Justice Samuel Alito reflects upon (among other things) his arrival on the Court, recent First Amendment cases, the themes in his dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, and his love for baseball.